 Her tombstone at Klara kyrka in Stockholm Anna Maria Lenngren (born Malmstedt in June 18, 1754; died March 8, 1817) was a Swedish writer, poet, feminist and salonist. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 521 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (561 × 646 pixel, file size: 63 KB, MIME type: image/png) From Swedish Wiki File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
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1754 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...
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1817 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...
A writer is anyone who creates a written work, although the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ...
The poor poet A poet is a person who writes poetry. ...
Feminism is a social theory and political movement primarily informed and motivated by the experience of women. ...
A Salon of Ladies by Abraham Bosse A salon is a gathering of people under the roof of an inspiring hostess or host, partly to amuse one another and partly to refine their taste and increase their knowledge through conversation and readings, often consciously following Horaces definition of the...
The daughter of Magnus Brynolfsson Malmstedt, a professor of Latin at Uppsala University, she learnt Latin at a young age and was greatly encouraged by her father to write and explore literature; he early saw her talent, and declared that he wanted to "create of her not only an educated, but a wise and learned woman". Her father died under suspicious circumstances, possibly murdered, after having lost his position violating the religious restriction laws; he was a poet to and a member of the herrnhuts. Latin was the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ...
Uppsala University (Swedish Uppsala universitet) is a public university in Uppsala, Sweden. ...
She wrote poems when she was a teenager, debuted as a poet in 1775 in the paper of Anna Hammar-Rosen in Gotheburg, and became a member of Vetenskaps-och Vitterhets-samhället in Gothenburg. Year 1775 (MDCCLXXV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). ...
Gothenburg (Swedish: Göteborg [jøːtəbɔrj]) is a city and a municipality on the western coast of Sweden, in the County of Västra Götaland. ...
As an adult, her first paid, professional works was reviews, epitomes, epigrams and translations; in 1776, she was hired by duke Charles, the kings brother, to translate a French Opera, and after this she became widely known, was hired a regular basis as a translator by the royal court and was elected into a number of literal societies and smaller academys, among them the Utile dulci in 1779, praised in the press and was decorated with a number of gifts by the court, and as porfession, she stated that she was a "litterata". She openly criticised preconceptions about women's role in society and was well known as a speaker for the free mind, especially women's right to intellectual independence. Though she was not ben the first woman to publish articles in Swedish papers, she could be regarded as Sweden's first female journalist, sixty years before Vendela Hebbe, who is generally given that title, but Anna Maria never really had to support herself by doing this. Year 1776 (MDCCLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Thursday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). ...
1779 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...
Vendela Hebbe, née Åström, (1808-1899), Swedish journalist, publicist and author, is regarded as having been the first professional female journalist in Sweden. ...
In 1780, she married Carl Peter Lenngren, editor of the newspaper Stockholmsposten, and after that she stepped back from the public scene, instead contributing anonymously to her husband's publication. Her silence lasted for ten years, during which she instead became Sweden's leading salon-hostess and a centre of the cultural and political debate; she is during this period described as witty and learned but also very anxious not to seem dominating or to put herself before her husband, and she often claimed she disliked female intellectuals and that her greatest interest now was her household. 1780 was a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...
A Salon of Ladies by Abraham Bosse A salon is a gathering of people under the roof of an inspiring hostess or host, partly to amuse one another and partly to refine their taste and increase their knowledge through conversation and readings, often consciously following Horaces definition of the...
In 1790, she again became more active when one of her husbands most celebrated journalists died, and she made herself once again famous with her writing; she criticised the snobbism of the nobility, the humble admiration their servants gave them and the anxious bowing of the working class; she was a realist, who wanted to make heard the voice of the middle class, "The third class" inspired by the French Revolution, and above all, she fought for the intellectual freedom of women; that also women should be allowed to have opinions. Year 1790 (MDCCXC) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). ...
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The French Revolution (1789–1815) was a period of political and social upheaval in the political history of France and Europe as a whole, during which the French governmental structure, previously an absolute monarchy with feudal privileges for the aristocracy and Catholic clergy, underwent radical change to forms based on...
Her home was the center of the Swedish academy, and though she was not a formall member, probably because she had declined being elected, she was so in reality, and the academy called her their "Invisible member". Despite of the fact that she wished to remain anonymous, the academy-members made her public again by expressing their admiration with a complimentary poem to her honor in 20 december 1797; "Ode to Mrs Lenngren", red by Gustaf Frederic Gyllenborg. She declined the admiration with the poem "Dream", a poem, which she, however, signed with her own name. 1797 (MDCCXCVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 11-day-slower Julian calendar). ...
Her work as a feminist is much debated; Anna Maria Lenngren is famed for her great love for irony, which have made people unsure about how to understand what it was she really meant. In the poem: "Advice to my daughter, if i had any" she discusses the topic regarding women and politics, where she wrote that every women did best to concentrate on being a wife and mother and not on learning or politics, because; "Our household is our Republic, the lavatory is our politics"; and she continues by saying that if a woman must read, she should do it quickly, otherwise "the sauce will brew over"; this was the way she used to express the frustrating fact that a women's main mission was domestic duties, and that the most important thing for a woman was her cooking ability, even if she had other talents, and it is guessed to be her way of criticizing the fact that she herself was expected to withdraw from public life when she married- which she also did, for ten years, during which she had told everyone that her main interest was to learn to polish her furniture. Because of this rather brutal irony, she is considered Sweden's greatest representant of satirical irony. Others, however, claims that she meant what she wrote and that she was in fact a follower of Rousseau and really thought that women should devote their life to the household as a proof of love. Rousseau is a French surname. ...
Her writings are generally in verse, sometimes very short, and often about everyday life. They frequently employ satire and irony and she is regarded as a realist. 1867 edition of the satirical magazine Punch, a British satirical magazine, ground-breaking on popular literature satire. ...
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She never had any biologicall children, but she adopted a daughter. Sadly, her adoptiv-daughter was placed in a mental-asylum.
Anna Maria Lenngren eventually became one of the most well-known and popular Swedish writers of the 18th century. She died of breast cancer and is buried in the cemetery of Klara kyrka in Stockholm. Breast cancer is cancer of breast tissue. ...
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See also
Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht (November 28, 1718; Stockholm–June 29, 1763) was a Swedish poet and feminist. ...
Sophia Elisabet Brenner, née Weber, (1659-1730), was a Swedish writer, poet, feminist and salon hostess, and was regarded in her country as a pioneer in each of these fields. ...
External link - (Swedish) Samlade Skaldeförsök - A collection of Anna Maria Lenngren's works
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